15 Years of Raising the Bar for Professional In-home Pet Services

We’d love to meet you and bring fun to your house, too!

EXPERIENCE

You can rest easy.

We’ve been serving family pets for 15 years. All our employees have two years or more prior professional experience in animal hospitals, shelters, doggie day care, wildlife rehab, or animal control. We’ve seen it all.

EMPLOYEES

Know who works for you.

We hire permanent employees – never contractors or seasonal help – who are focused on consistent quality care. You initially meet several of us, so you know personally who’s visiting and who’s backup.

NEIGHBORS

Your town is our town.

We all live in Alexandria – we work where we live and live where we work. So, whenever you need us, you know we’re close by. We save on commuting time, and we care about doing great work in our own community.

Top 10 Reasons To Hire Alexandria Pet Care

Ask around. Go ahead, we don’t mind. We would want to find the best dog walker and the best pet sitter for our own pets, too. Compare our practices to other pet care services:

EXPERIENCE: We only hire career animal professionals with experience working in animal hospitals, dog training, rescue, shelters, and doggie day care

CONSISTENCY: We hire employees (never seasonal or contractors) and provide excellent training, pay and benefits, so our turnover averages 4 years compared to the industry average of 1 year

ACCOUNTABILITY: Your online account is available to you 24/7 showing your upcoming visit times and assigned team member, then our software logs for you when we arrive, when we depart, and a “report card” about that visit

INSURANCE: We carry bonding and liability insurance with “pet sitters” coverage. Employees are covered by worker’s comp and medical insurance

TEAM-BASED SERVICE: We introduce your neighborhood team in person to you, so if you live in Del Ray, Old Town Alexandria, West End, Belle Haven, Mount Vernon, and everywhere in between, you’ll know who will visit your pets for pet sitting or dog walks

INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION: We serve one household at a time (no “pack” dog walking)

RESPONSIBILITY: We provide the sole care for animals in our charge (no sharing with neighbors or other parties)

FREQUENCY: We visit at least once a day while pet sitting (3 times/day minimum for dogs) and no skipped days when owners are out of town

TRANSPARENCY: You receive a draft invoice with all visits and prices before each set of appointments, our software tells you when we come and go, and we leave a written journal entry for each visit

What’s Included in a Visit

We focus on pets’ individual needs because we know pets are like people: they all don’t like to be treated the same.

Each visit is customized to the care your pet needs. Whether it’s a playful visit, or a quiet soothing visit, a speedy dog walk or a stroll-n-sniff, we can do these basic chores included in your standard visit: